11-letter words containing r, e, l, t, o
- unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- unicolorate — of one colour
- unit holder — an investor in a unit trust fund
- unthrottled — Also called throttle lever. a lever, pedal, handle, etc., for controlling or manipulating a throttle valve.
- untolerable — capable of being tolerated; endurable: His arrogance is no longer tolerable.
- untolerated — to allow the existence, presence, practice, or act of without prohibition or hindrance; permit.
- untremulous — not tremulous or timorous; not characterized by trembling
- upholstered — to provide (chairs, sofas, etc.) with coverings, cushions, stuffing, springs, etc.
- upholsterer — a person whose business it is to upholster furniture and, sometimes, to furnish and put in place hangings, curtains, carpets, etc.
- upholstress — a female upholsterer
- upper volta — former name of Burkina Faso.
- valedictory — bidding goodbye; saying farewell: a valedictory speech.
- vectorially — Mathematics. a quantity possessing both magnitude and direction, represented by an arrow the direction of which indicates the direction of the quantity and the length of which is proportional to the magnitude. Compare scalar (def 4). such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities obey the parallelogram law of addition. such a quantity with the additional requirement that such quantities are to transform in a particular way under changes of the coordinate system. any generalization of the above quantities.
- velocimeter — any of various instruments for measuring velocity, as of a wave in water or of sound in air.
- velocimetry — the measurement of the speed of sound in fluids
- ventilatory — of, having, or pertaining to ventilation
- ventriloquy — the art or practice of speaking, with little or no lip movement, in such a manner that the voice does not appear to come from the speaker but from another source, as from a wooden dummy.
- very pistol — a special pistol which fires coloured flares for signalling at night, esp at sea
- vibratoless — without vibrato
- viceroyalty — the dignity, office, or period of office of a viceroy.
- victorville — a city in SE California.
- victoryless — without victory
- violet iris — an iris, Iris verna, of the eastern U.S., having solitary, violet-blue flowers.
- vital force — the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.
- volt-ampere — an electric measurement unit, equal to the product of one volt and one ampere, equivalent to one watt for direct current systems and a unit of apparent power for alternating current systems. Abbreviation: VA.
- voltammeter — an instrument for measuring voltage or amperage.
- volunteered — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
- vulneration — the state of being wounded or the action of causing a wound
- wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
- water lemon — yellow granadilla.
- water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
- water ouzel — dipper (def 4).
- watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
- watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
- watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
- waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
- waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
- waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
- waterlogged — so filled or flooded with water as to be heavy or unmanageable, as a ship.
- watermelons — Plural form of watermelon.
- well-sorted — (of sedimentary particles) uniform in size.
- westmorland — a former county in NW England, now part of Cumbria, partially in the Lake District.
- wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
- whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
- world title — the winner's position in an international competition
- worldbeater — a person or thing that surpasses all others of like kind, as in quality, ability, or endurance.
- worthlessly — In a worthless manner.
- wriggle out — to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.